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At least 19 oregon ag researchers fired in trump cuts www.opb.org/article/2025...

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The county's asking Metro and the state -- both govts facing their own budget shortfalls -- to help backfill the deficit. They both appeared a bit blindsided by the ask Friday, and hesitant to commit.

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NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

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apnews.com/article/ap-l... AP sues 3 Trump administration officials, citing freedom of speech

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Oregon’s Democratic U.S. Sens. Wyden and Merkley, and Idaho Republican Sens. Crapo and Risch, are reintroducing the Secure Rural Schools Act that was left to die by U.S. House Republicans in December. Oregon typically gets about $80 million a year. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/02/21/b...

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Most journalists worth their salt I know have left Twitter. It's never been a great engagement tool, and the value as far as sourcing has fallen off a cliff. The actual reason people stay, fmpov: People have addictions and are afraid to leave substantial followings.

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Sen Schiff of CA tried to include a Senate budget resolution that would have explicitly allowed the govt to start onboarding seasonal firefighters. It failed after all but one Republican senator voted against it. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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Great reporting on the local DEI retreat from @jimbrunner.bsky.social and @alexhalverson.bsky.social www.seattletimes.com/business/sta...

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An interesting nugget: OR law prohibits law enforcement from collecting videos of protesters, unless to document criminal evidence. PPB say they erased all non-criminal video they took of PSU protesters. But the city attorney’s office did not. The law doesn't prevent them from storing all footage.

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A year after passage, Oregon has finally launched a "key piece" of its strategy to address massive housing shortages throughout the state.

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“The Trump administration’s slogan is ‘Unleash American Energy,’” said Hal T. Nelson, associate professor and director of the energy policy and management graduate certificate program at Portland State University. “And in this case, it’s likely to unleash American blackouts.”

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GOP Rep. Rich McCormick “was peppered with boos and catcalls throughout a town hall meeting in Roswell late Thursday, as hundreds of critics jeered the Republican for backing President Donald Trump’s agenda during his first month in office.” www.ajc.com/politics/mcc...

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DA Nathan Vasquez has been vocal about wanting to see a tougher stance on protesters charged with crimes. @troywb.bsky.social found that bungled communication between the DA's office and city of Portland led to at least six PSU protest cases being dismissed -- including a felony charge.

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Republican U.S. Rep. Cliff Bentz again faced a combative crowd at a town hall last night in Pendleton, Oregon. According to the East Oregonian, he was booed and heckled throughout the meeting.

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I think "unconstitutional" is an early contender for word of the year.

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Oregon will soon begin issuing loans to help developers finance construction of middle-income housing, an increasingly common strategy in other states tackling the nation’s home affordability crisis. www.oregonlive.com/business/202...

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How much news has been happening during the Trump administration? OPB's Tiffany Camhi takes a look at just one area: education. 20 major policy changes in the first 30 days.

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"In interviews with OPB, almost a dozen current and former Forest Service employees said they feared this loss of workers will be catastrophic for the fire season ahead."

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We're No. 1! And 2, 3, 5, 6....

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Oregon U.S. Rep. Cliff Bentz faces questions over Elon Musk and federal employee cuts during a recent town hall in Eastern Oregon.

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The official White House account tonight.

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Former Oregon Judge Vance Day is back, this time with a job in Trump's Department of Justice.

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"Hundreds of members represented by two of the state’s largest unions, SEIU and AFSCME, have said they no longer have confidence in Fariborz Pakseresht."

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Skiers who were killed in a Tuesday avalanche in Central Oregon were pioneers in the local skiing community.

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Great story from Nick Budnick today. The head of Oregon's Health Authority has a side job seeing patients in California.

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Here's a good summary of basic facts about federal funding of public media via the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 - and what's at stake if it's lost, especially for stations in rural areas where local news deserts are already growing: www.opb.org/federal-fund...

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More BPA news today. “This blanket purge of federal jobs by the current administration is a fool’s errand,” said Thomas Girouard, who retired from BPA four years ago after working as an electrical lineman there for a dozen years.

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Trump fired workers at the USDA who were working on the virus and now he has reversed that and is trying to hire them back. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

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"(Kiyokawa Family Orchards) is one of the few remaining Japanese American-owned orchards in the Hood River Valley — a rare multigenerational enterprise that survived the forced relocation of Japanese communities into concentration camps during World War Two."

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Democrats have most of the power in Salem, but they're tapping a Republican to take a look at Oregon's transportation agency, which says it's headed into a rough financial road ahead.

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Bryce Dole has you covered today on the confirmation hearing for Oregon's former congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer as U.S. labor secretary.

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When asked how Oregon Republicans feel about Trump & D.C. Republicans freezing U.S. Forest Service wildfire prevention grants, firing 10% of agency staff, Oregon's lead House Republican, Rep. Christine Drazan, said she has "every confidence" feds will protect the 53% of Oregon land they own...

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"In this week’s episode, producer Alicia Avila shares the story of Colegio César Chávez – the first accredited, independent Chicano university in U.S. history, and how it continues to inspire as the Latino community in Oregon fights against its erasure."

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"In a memo Friday, the Education Department gave an ultimatum to stop using “racial preferences” as a factor in admissions, financial aid, hiring or other areas. Schools are being given 14 days to end any practice that treats students or workers differently because of their race."

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I wrote about how Oregon (still) isn't paying people who have been wrongfully convicted. “That’s certainly not how we intended (the law),” Republican state Sen. Kim Thatcher of Keizer said.

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Following OPB's reporting on cuts at the Bonneville Power Administration, Oregon's senators are calling on the Trump White House to halt its actions.

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The NYT says this whole scheme was actually Intel’s idea. Or board chair Frank Yeary’s, maybe. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/t...

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Roses are red, Violets are cute,

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A protester, whose injury left him permanently disabled during the 2020 protests and civil unrest in Portland, will receive a $7.65 million settlement from the U.S. Department of Justice.

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New from me: Meal programs bring people together. Today Portland’s iconic Ikoi no Kai (meaning “a place of rest” in Japanese) celebrates 46th years of providing nourishing meals and recreational activities for seniors to socialize, helping to combat loneliness as a major issue in Oregon.

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"Hardy, the former BPA administrator, said he considered the Bonneville staff reductions to be ironic because the agency is self-funded. It receives no money from taxpayers and funds all of its staff and programs with its power and transmission sales."

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Really solid -- and concerning reporting -- in this story. “The reliability impacts of this could be very serious. I mean the lights go out. Unplanned outages,” Randall Hardy, an energy consultant and former administrator of BPA, said.

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